Courses

If your firm, group, or team is interested in taking any of the available courses below, call R.M. Headlee at (716) 662-9813 to coordinate, or contact us through our website. These courses are presented free of charge unless otherwise specified.

Introduction to Air Valves

This course is to help develop an understanding of the different air valve types so that the designer and end-user can choose a valve that will automatically release and admit air without operator assistance. Attendees learn about the types, designs and functions of air valves, and how to identify and solve common air problems.

Duck Bill Check Valves

The flexibility of the duckbill check valve allows the valve to compress around trapped solids, providing a much better seal than conventional designs. There are many variables (all of which are critically important!) to consider when it comes to selecting a valve for a particular project. This course equips designers and engineers with the acumen to choose a check valve that will meet the performance requirements expected for a particular application. 

Automatic Control Valves for the Water Industry

This course reviews the primary applications and purposes of automatic control valves, as well as the regulatory requirements and needs of today’s water systems. Actual valve assemblies will be utilized for hands-on training for water pressure reducing, pressure relief and pressure sustaining, with thorough review of valve application mechanics and necessary maintenance.

Avoiding Cavitation

This course reviews “cavitation” in fluid mechanics and engineering, its negative impact on machinery, and the circumstances that cause it, as well as proper selection and sizing of automatic control valves to prevent cavitation.

Valve Actuation

New and innovative products are being introduced to reduce maintenance costs and to simplify plant operations. As new technologies continue to evolve, it is important to choose the actuator that offers the best cost of ownership. Considerations like valve style, ambient conditions, power availability, process control, type of service, safety, location and maintenance to name a few, all must be part of the actuator selection equation. The course will include discussion on multi-turn, quarter-turn and linear actuators.

Introduction to Electric Actuators

Electric actuators are used in municipal and industrial applications to actuate all types of valves today. New and innovative products are being introduced to reduce maintenance costs and to simplify plant operations. As new technologies continue to evolve, it is important to choose the actuator that offers the best cost of ownership.

Maintaining Disinfectant Residuals In Water Storage Tanks

Deterioration of water quality in finished water storage facilities is one of the most important issues facing water utilities. The most common problem in reservoirs is the loss of disinfectant residual resulting from hydraulic short-circuiting, poor mixing and circulation, poor turnover, and excessive detention time. Many of these water quality problems can be specifically attributed to the location and orientation of the inlet and outlet pipe(s).

Valves for Municipal Applications

Valves are used to regulate the flow of fluids in piping systems. They are used to throttle flow, shut-off flow, reduce pressure, relieve pressure and prevent backflow. Valves are one of the simplest components in most piping systems, but the importance of proper valve selection cannot be overemphasized. Premature valve failure can result in loss of fluid pressure containment, which often leads to undesirable consequences. As new technologies continue to evolve, choosing the valve that offers the best cost of ownership can be confusing.

Valves for Commercial Applications

New and innovative products are being introduced to reduce maintenance costs and to simplify plant operations. As new technologies continue to evolve, choosing the valve and actuator that offers the best cost of ownership is important. Considerations like safety, valve style, valve standards, media, flow, pressure, seat design, shutoff, control, and maintenance must be part of the valve assembly selection equation.

High Solids Mixing

This presentation will review the current design approach for mixing systems used on high solids concentration, process fluids within wastewater treatment processes. The operational state of fluids can be either aerobic or anoxic and requires the mixing systems to maintain these environments. Methods of ‘old school’ mixing design approach will be evaluated against today’s operational methods of wastewater treatment. Designing systems that have low maintenance demand in highly aggressive process fluids is key to the longevity of the system operation.